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Tivat Airport to get new terminal

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Forty million euro terminal project planned for Tivat Airport

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is considering granting Tivat Airport a twenty million euro loan for the construction of a second terminal building, as capacity at Montenegro’s busiest airport becomes stretched to the limit. The EBRD signed a mandate letter with Tivat Airport’s operator, Airports of Montenegro, this week, meaning the bank will now study the multi million euro terminal project before approving necessary funds. The entire project, which comes at a price tag of forty million euros, includes the construction of a brand new terminal building, jetways, apron and a parking lot. Within the next three weeks, tender procedures for the selection of a consultant for the project will begin. “It is important to note that the EBRD did not request guarantees from the government, taking into consideration Airports of Montenegro’s integrity and long lasting relationship”, the operator’s spokeswoman, Milica Babić, said.

Tivat Airport’s current terminal building was opened on September 25, 1971. It was damaged by a devastating earthquake in 1979 but was quickly repaired and expanded. In 2006, the terminal was again refurbished and expanded. The apron has seven parking positions. In 2014, Tivat handled a record 910.533 passengers, the bulk of which came in July and August. It is now the former Yugoslavia’s eighth busiest airport, ahead of Sarajevo and Podgorica. Due to strong passenger growth, there have been issues with a lack of capacity during the summer months.

In October last year, the Serbia and Montenegro Air Traffic Services Agency (SMATSA), which controls the airspace of both countries, announced plans for the construction of a new control tower at Tivat Airport. The new facility is expected to be opened in early 2016. SMATSA CEO, Radojica Rovčanin, said the new control tower will resolve all aircraft monitoring issues at the airport for the next twenty years. “With the new tower in Tivat we will improve safety with the use of the latest technology, which will, in turn, improve the functioning of all of the airport’s services. It is important to note that this control tower will be an architectural masterpiece which will greet tourists upon their arrival in Tivat and leave a strong first impression on them”, Mr Rovčanin said. SMATSA is yet to reveal further project details.

Those of you who claim that JU does not have poor loads and LF, please do some research. I am one of the biggest believers in the potential of Air Serbia and have been ever since the start of this project, yet I can tell you that I personally know that although JU has made big strides in fixing all the main issues, there are still problems.

The problems that do exist are these: poor loads and load factors, poor customer service experience, and poor on time performance.

The problem with this Tivat new terminal is that nothing was said where it will be. There are several plans, none of which is ideal and some of which require a lot of changes in airport operations. Until I see a concrete proposal this sounds just like another propaganda piece.

I dont know about U.S. but it is noticeable that here in Toronto area there is much more Croats. Back when I was in high school there were like 5 Serbs and 25 Croats. Also it is worth mentioning that there were around 50 Albanians. I know you cannot judge by high school stats LOL, but whenever I go somewhere I usually hear people talking in Croatian or Albanian. Unfortunately even if there are more Serbs in Canada a lot of them have assimilated completely and are ashamed to speak their own language. I am sometimes jealous on the Albanians since they are always united and not ashamed on what others think of them.

@4:41Well, in Canada there are more Croats than Serbs, I know that because my uncle lives in Toronto and he told me that. But that doesn't mean that Croatia has more potential than Serbia when it comes to flights to North America. I mean, I don't have nothing against Croats, really, I've been in Split, Zagreb and Dubrovnik and it's a beautiful country, just sayin'.BG | NIC

I also wanted to point out that there is a market for flights to ex yu from Toronto, but ONLY because of diaspora. There are virtually no Canadian tourists who would come to either Croatia nor Serbia ( now Croatian and Serbian lovers will hit me with stats). Those " Canadians" who come to Croatian or Serbia are in fact DIASPORA WITH CANADIAN PASSPORT. Most of Canadians either go on vacation to Cuba or Dominican, and if in Europe then to Paris or London. CANADIANS ARE VERY SHALLOW WHEN IT COMES TO TRAVEL. Anybody who lived in Canada will know this.

@5:26Do you actually know how many Serbs identify as Americans in the US?! My godparents and many their Serbian friends who live in Chicago identified as Americans, many od them are even ashamed that they are from Serbia. Do you really think that there are only 200 000 Serbs in the US?

I was just defending Purger and whoever said USA has more Croats, since he was only looking at the official data.Maybe he doesnt know the real situation.

Also, to bridge it to this topic:

Being ashamed to admit that you are a Serb once in 4 YEARS tells a lot about their willingness to travel to Serbia and about willingness of their children and grandchildren. Which can reflect on aviation business that we discuss here about.

I completely disagree with you 6:38. If I was born and raised in Canada ( which I was not) I would for sure identify myself as Canadian. Since I was born in Serbia and lived there for 12 years I identify myself as Serbian even though I have Canadian citizenship plus the accent haha. For instance I would want my children to be identified as Canadian with Serbian origins. That does not mean I am ashamed of Serbia. They would learn Serbian language and customs, but I would not want them to be Serbian if they have nothing with Serbia other then going there for 2-3 weeks to visit family.

Purger I respect you and I know that you are very knowledgeable in aviation sector, but at the same time you have to understand that you cannot look at stats only. As I said before many of this people are in fact Canadians of Croatian origin who come to visit family ( like me for Serbia). If I come to Serbia with a Canadian passport I am treated as Canadian tourist right?Canadians with no roots to eastern europe usually go to cancun, cuba, or dominican for vacation and to paris or london if in europe. I will repeat this, Americans in general are very very shallow when it comes to picking vacation destinations.

First of all, on the census data, you dont specify your ethnicity but ethnic origin. You, and your kids would write down that you have Serbian origin, although your kids primarily identify themselves as Canadians, which is totally okay.

I am talking about those kind of people that do not list themselves as being of Serbian >origin<. They do all feel as they are Americans, which is totally okay, I am just saying that being ashamed to admit you are of Serbian origin is something that is common in USA, but also in Australia.

Anonymous 7:03I get what you were trying to say, I am not disagreeing now ;)I feel like its not common only within Serb population but also the entire region. Its kind of sad definitely, especially when you see how for instance the Pakistani community has strong bonds and how even after a couple of generations they still identify as Pakistani.

BG-NIC, all while i agree with most of your arguments from the first post, i find totally despisable your снисходљивост and страхопоштовање you are showing to Purger, which is a disgusting mix of weakness, hypocrisy and Western-trying to be friendly and adapt to Western norms Serbian emigrant attitude (no offense on that). It also applies to others who keep him as some sort of deity while constinstently, from time to time, he displays such subjectivity coupled with mind-buggling nonsense that crushes any elusions of eloquence and professionalism he might have. Let's call the things by their name.

^ you can laugh all you want but those stats are not clear. In the census there were 300k people who identified as Yugoslavs so you can add to both Croatian and Serbian population +100k. I know there are more Croatians than Serbians in North America but do you really believe that there are 200k Serbs in whole U.S.???

BG | NIC, they obviously lost the argument by claiming that there are 200k Serbs in the whole U.S. How can someone argue that there are 170k Slovens in U.S. and only 200k Serbs. Also who are those 300k Yugoslavs, which I am assuming half are from Serbia in fact. I am not saying that there are more Serbs than Croats in U.S., and I know that for instance here in Canada there are more Croats than Serbs, but at the same time its obvious that the study/stat report was not conduced well. I find it weird that they classified 300k people as Yugoslav which is not a country, and also they identified 170k people as Slavic which again is not a country. YOU GUYS HAVE NO IDEA HOW BAD NORTH AMERICANS ARE IN GEOGRAPHY. I bet those guys who made the stat report don't even know where Serbia or Croatia is. btw you can laugh all you want ;)

What was going on with today's Beirut flight? It was late for 2 hours and people missed their connections to CDG, AMS, etc. Would somebody also mind providing us with loads for Beirut, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, and Tel Aviv. I wonder how those "eastern" routes are doing now?

Tel Aviv is doing bad.I remember on one flight there were 8 passengers on board. LolAUH is doing just fine, not sure about Beirut.IST is doing well, I think that today's flight had about 150 passengers, not bad for February.BG | NIC

They already axed the Kosher menu so it might be a sign of things to come.Anyway, i wonder why Wizz Air never launched Tel Aviv. They should do it in the case Air Serbia cuts the route, i'm sure they would do just fine.

It really bugs me when people try to twist was is in fact factual data. The arguments that not all American Serbians declare Serbian ethnicity is true mainly because a lot of the east European migrants who migrated to North America did so 3 to 4 generations back so you are putting the question to 4 generation migrants many of whom have parents or grandparents of mixed marriages but you can also apply the same arguments to all migrant groups.

So it's not right to artificially inflate the number of Serbian migrants in the US unless you do the same using a similar margin to all migrant groups.

I wonder what does 133 k who said they are slavic, from where they are? Also I find it hard to believe that there are 170k of Slovenians in U.S. and only 190k Serbs so yea I am finding those stats suspicious. Also there is half a million people who identify as Eastern European, the hell. OHH AND THE BEST ONE IS there is 300K YUGOSLAVIANS? Who the hell are those people

this is not clear from the way the article is written; I kindly recommend you use phrases like "the EBRD told Ex-Yu Aviation", for instance, or "the government said in a statement" which will vastly improve the credibility of your sourcing policy; in fact, I definitely noticed you employed that approach in your interview with easyJet where you said (rough quote) "....Taddei told Ex-Yu Aviation"; I don't know why you didn't adhere to this principle in this article as well

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